Every Saturday we post a selection of our favorite science and technology articles from the week. With 2024 nearing its end, we dug through all those posts again to surface 25 stories worth revisiting. Here you’ll find meditations on AI’s evolution, a ChatGPT moment in robotics, first contact with whale civilization, the inaugural jet suit grand prix, and five sci-fi visions from the year 2149—among many more worth your time.
Happy reading. See you in 2025!
The GPT Era Is Already EndingMatteo Wong | The Atlantic“[OpenAI] has been unusually direct that the o1 series is the future: Chen, who has since been promoted to senior vice president of research, told me that OpenAI is now focused on this ‘new paradigm,’ and Altman later wrote that the company is prioritizing’ o1 and its successors. The company believes, or wants its users and investors to believe, that it has found some fresh magic. The GPT era is giving way to the reasoning era.”